The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) sponsored the "Better Healthcare Policy Group" meeting held on March 12 at the office of The American College of Surgeons in Washington, DC. JHF Chief Policy Officer Robert Ferguson, MPH, was pres...
Project & Program Updates
Jewish Healthcare Foundation Awards $665K in Grants to Address Critical Issues Affecting Vulnerable Older Adults
PITTSBURGH, PA – The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) approved $665,000 in grants, including funds to create programming to engage older adults at risk for or with early cognitive decline; initial funding to explore gender and income equities in fi...
New Documentary “The Pitch” Reveals Unprecedented Healthcare Safety Innovation Using AI and VR Technology
To celebrate Patient Safety Awareness Week (March 10–16), the trailer to the Jewish Healthcare Foundation's (JHF) forthcoming documentary The Pitch: Patient Safety's Next Generation was released online, and a private preview of the film was held at T...
Read JHF’s 2023 Year in Review
In 2023, the Jewish Healthcare Foundation cultivated diverse partnerships spanning local, statewide, national, and international arenas, fostering a dynamic environment for driving change. Progress was made within each of JHF's focus areas, including...
New Documentary “The Pitch” Reveals Unprecedented Healthcare Safety Innovation Using AI and VR Technology
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) is proud to introduce a forthcoming documentary exploring technological advances to protect patients and detect risks of unintended harm in health settings while it can still be prevented. The Pitch: Patient Saf...
Bipartisan Legislation Makes Patient Safety A National Priority
National Patient Safety Board Will Address Preventable Medical Harm, the Third Leading Cause of Death in the U.S. U.S. Representatives Nanette Barragán (D-CA) and Michael Burgess (R-TX) have announced the reintroduction of the National Patient S...
Safety Innovation Summit Shares Cross-Sector Safety Solutions
On February 29, the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI) and the Pittsburgh Technology Council convened 130 Pittsburgh leaders for the Safety Innovation Summit to discuss the region's long history of safety accomplishments and to share safety...
Global Leaders Convene for Salzburg Seminar to Address Women’s Health Inequities as They Age
Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) and Women's Health Activist Movement Global (WHAMglobal) convened a Salzburg Seminar "Women as They Age: Addressing the Next Inequity Frontier" January 16-19 at Rancho Bernardo Inn in San Diego, California to initia...
JHF Welcomes Seven New Board Trustees
Jewish Healthcare Foundation recently welcomed seven new Board Trustees. Each will serve a three-year term. Deb Brodine, MHA, MBA is the President of UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital and Western Behavioral Health, and President of UPMC Sen...
Maternal Health Organizations Issue Collective Plan to Save Lives in Pennsylvania
PITTSBURGH, PA – For Pennsylvania Maternal Health Awareness Day, the Jewish Healthcare Foundation contributed to a statewide collective plan to raise awareness of recommendations to improve maternal health and reduce racial/ethnic disparities in Penn...
JHF Emergency Grants Support the Tel Aviv Sexual Assault Crisis Center
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation approved emergency grants totaling $25,000 to the P.E.F. Israel Endowment Funds for the Tel Aviv Sexual Assault Crisis Center, Israel's first and largest rape crisis center. "Since the attacks of October 7th, the Tel ...
The PA Youth Advocacy Network, a Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) program, launched the 2024 Advocacy Series on January 31. Over the following eight weeks, teens learned advocacy skills, which they applied to their final presentation...
On March 15, 53 students from 11 area high schools came together at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh to discuss issues they care about and learn about the difference their vote can make in elections from the local to the national lev...
Since 2015, the Jewish Healthcare Foundation's (JHF's) Death & Dying Fellowship has endeavored to educate and inform the next generation of healthcare professionals on the nuances of communicating with patients and families e...
The Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI) welcomed four new members to its board during a meeting held on March 12 at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh. In their remarks, Jewish Health Care Foundation (JHF) and P...
A meeting of the WHAMglobal Board on March 26 continued a review of themes and priorities jointly identified by participants at the Salzburg Seminar convened by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) and WHAMglobal in January. Th...
How are the next generation of innovators looking to disrupt the status quo and bring new perspectives to improving safety in health care? In this episode, host Karen Wolk Feinstein and young entrepreneur Reetam Ganguli, star of the do...
The March issue of Allegheny County Medical Society's (ACMS's) Bulletin featured an op-ed by Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) CEO and President Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD, highlighting the scope of patient safety work being done by th...
In early March, Jewish Healthcare Foundation staff visited the Prime Time Adult Day Care in Bethel Park, PA, to learn more about successful care models to support community-dwelling older adults who some level of assistance. Prime Time...
JHF Nurse Project Manager Maureen Saxon-Gioia, MS HSA, BSN, RN, shared about the exciting progress being made by the Teaching Nursing Home Collaborative initiative at the annual AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medi...
The Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh's (JCC) 18th Annual Big Night celebration, held Saturday, March 9 at the JCC, honored its former President and CEO Brian Schreiber. Schreiber joined the JCC in 1999 as President and CEO...
Are you interested in exploring artificial intelligence and cutting-edge technology to revolutionize safety in health care? We invite you to apply for the summer, 9-week Patient Safety Fellowship hosted by the Jewish Healthcare Foundat...
In April, Elizabeth Klusman will join the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) as a program epidemiologist associate, supporting its Ryan White Part B services, Minority AIDS Initiative, and AIDS Free Pittsburgh work. In this role, she w...
India Renae Hunter is a doula and maternal and child health public health professional. She attended the University of Pittsburgh, where she completed dual master's degrees in public health and social work. Hunter is originally from Da...
Deborah Brodine, MHA, MBA, stands at the apex of two critical fronts in health care: senior care and mental health care. Appointed as president of UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital in 2019, she brings over three decades of experience b...
On February 26, members of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation's (JHF) senior staff travelled to Slippery Rock University (SRU) to visit with the leadership of their Safety Management Department and tour their training facilities ahead of...
Jewish Healthcare Foundation's PA Youth Advocacy Network kicked off its third annual advocacy series for high school teens on January 31. Twenty-seven students from 22 schools and 8 counties across the Commonwealth are participating in...
The third cohort of BH Fellows convened for their kickoff retreat on February 20th at Phipps Conservatory. This cohort of fellows includes a mix of 18 new and experienced family-based therapists and clinicians, substance use disorder c...
How employers can support employees during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum to help address the maternal health crisis was highlighted in an op-ed by Karen Feinstein published in the Pittsburgh Business Times. Read the full op-ed throu...
February 7th is recognized as National Black HIV AIDS Awareness Day. This year AIDS Free Pittsburgh (AFP) supported partner organizations with two events over two days. The first event was held on the evening of February 6 at 1Hood Med...
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